Investigation Overview¶
In this investigation, I wanted to look at the cicycle hires informations to help understand the users's choice for a specific station. The main focus was on the trip duration and distance, the start hour, the day of the week and the nature of the user
Dataset Overview¶
The data consists of trips features of 176114 bicycle hires. The attributes included the trip duration, the station name, the start hour, the day of the week as well as additional variables such as the user type and the travelled distance.
Distribution of trip duration in minutes¶
The average duration of bike rides is 10 minutes, however the median duration is 8.4 minutes. The histogram presents a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 7.1 minutes.
Top busiest stations¶
The frequent start station is Market St at 10th St with 3800 bicycle hires over the month followed by San Francisco Caltrain Station 2 with 3500 bicycle hires.
Busiest day of the week¶
Weekdays are the days with the highest number of bicycle hires. Thursday is the busiest day , with a bicycle hires range from 8973 to 9498. In general, one can notice a moderate uptick in weekends compared to weekdays.
Top stations by trip duration and distance¶
All the top 5 stations have the same trip duration average of about 10 min. However, regarding the average distance Berry St at 4th St has the max average distance followed by Market St at 10th St.
Distribution of start hours Vs. days¶
During weekdays the start hours of rides tend to be in the morning around 8 am or in the evening around 5 pm, wich means the rush hours. However, during weekends, the bicycle hires tend to be all the day with an importante hires the afternoon.
Distribution of rush hours per day for busiest stations¶
The figure is devided into days of the week so, we can see for each day what station is the busiest and at what hour. At mondays for instance, San Fransisco Caltrain Station 2 is the station with the highest number of bicycle hires espacially between 6 and 9 am. Therefore, there should be enough bicycles.
